Tenerife rampage Scot is found dead
‘Car-jacking spree’ on f irst day of holiday
A SCOTTISH tourist has been found dead a day after he arrived on the Spanish resort island of Tenerife after apparently going on a bizarre car-jacking spree.
The tourist, who has been identified locally as Kevin Daffurn, 30, was found barefoot and wearing only shorts near Tenerife’s main highway on Friday morning.
Spanish police are investigating the ‘mysterious’ death, and a post-mortem examination was due to be conducted over the weekend.
Mr Daffurn, who is believed to be from Lanarkshire, is said to have arrived at the island on Thursday with two male friends, who all went out together in the evening. Investigators believe he became separated from his friends, who later told police he became a ‘conflictive’ person after drink and drugs.
Detectives suspect Mr Daffurn hijacked the first car outside the Costa Adeje shopping mall, when a motorist momentarily parked his vehicle and got out. He is said to have jumped into the car and driven off, with the motorist’s shocked wife in the front seat.
As Mr Daffurn drove the car on to the TF-1 highway with both doors open, the distressed female passenger jumped out, minutes before he crashed the car on the motorway which runs from Santa Cruz to tourist resorts in the south.
He then tried to steal another car and a motorbike stuck in the tailback resulting from the accident, before stunning witnesses by running along the hard shoulder, jumping over the central reservation and fleeing the scene on foot.
On Friday morning, Mr Daffurn’s body was found on waste ground that separates the motorway from the beach town of Los Christianos. He was reportedly still wearing the wristband of his all-inclusive hotel, where he had not actually spent his first night.
He was believed to have been staying at the Laguna Park resort hotel close to the Playa de las Americas beach.
His social media profile showed that he had recently become engaged and was the father of a one-year-old son.
The Foreign Office said local authorities had not made consular staff aware of the death but added that officials were making inquiries.
A police source said: ‘His two friends will be formally interviewed so investigators can try to piece together all his movements until the time he died.’